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“Suicide, seen as among the most selfish of acts, pushes a button in us that even murder doesn’t,” according to Clancy Martin: When I was in treatment for depression, I found that meeting and talking to other people about suicide was profoundly helpful; I saw what a loss it would have been had those people succeeded. … Continue reading Suicide Leaves Behind Nothing

by Chris Bodenner A reader appears adrift: I need help understanding this issue. Put frankly, I don’t know that I buy the imperative that we should be making a thing out of preventing suicide. Loved ones are hurt by suicide. But what else? I am not exactly suicidal, but it’s not at all infrequent for me to be … Continue reading Our Failure To Treat Suicidal Thoughts, Ctd

Cara Anna, inspired by the Ted talk seen above, hopes more suicide-attempt survivors “come out” about their experiences: For me, not being able to see anyone like myself talking about feeling suicidal only made me feel more suicidal, because it was easy to tell myself that I was a loser. What if we were encouraged to … Continue reading Speaking Out About Suicide

Jennifer Michael Hecht, author of Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, argues that in “the decades leading up to the Englightenment … open-minded questioning of religion became increasingly associated with an acceptance of suicide”: Christianity did not initially reject suicide…. In fact, Jesus’ death was understood by many as voluntary. In … Continue reading Suicide And Secularism

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